In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in … - Mark Twain

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It is the obligation of the ruler to continually renew himself in order to renew the people by his example.

Mark Twain

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

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Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

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Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

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Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile.

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Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

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Worrying is paying interest on a debt you might not even owe.

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Napoleon Bonaparte

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

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It is the obligation of the ruler to continually renew himself in order to renew the people by his example.

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Liam Gillick

"Contemporary art" for me is a kind of historical term that describes the 40 years between the Berlin Wall going up and then coming down. I'm not sure who will come up with a better term to describe art, but I think contemporary art is actually done for.

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Milan Kundera

. . . characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic human possibility that the author thinks no one else has discovered or said something essential about.

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